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SPECIES Leopoldamys neilli

Author:J. T. Marshall, Jr., 1976.
Citation:Family Muridae: rats and mice [Privately printed by Government Printing Office, Bangkok]: 485.
Common Name:Neill’s Leopoldamys
Type Locality:Thailand, Saraburi Prov, Kaengkhoi Dist., "outside the entrance to the bat cave, half-way up the face of a wooded limestone cliff, 200 meters altitude."
Distribution:N and SW Thailand north of the peninsular region (J. T. Marshall, Jr.,1977a; study of specimens in AMNH, BMNH, and USNM); limits unresolved (may also occur in adjacent Burma and Vietnam).
Status:IUCN – Endangered.
Comments:Documented by few specimens: three samples are from wooded limestone cliffs in Saraburi Province and adjacent Kanchanaburi Province in the southwest (J. T. Marshall, Jr., 1977a; specimens in AMNH and USNM), one comes from lowland bamboo forest in a different part of Kanchanaburi Province (Wiles, 1981), and a fourth consists of owl pellet fragments collected in Loei Province in the north (BMNH 94.374). Phylogenetic relationship of L. neilli to other extant members of Leopoldamys requires resolution by systematic revision employing morphological and molecular data. See Musser (1981b:237) for discussion of original publication.
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